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2014 June UGC NET Paper-1, Page-6

51. A
thesis statement is

(A) An
observation

(B) A
fact

(C) An
assertion

(D) A
discussion

Answer: (C)

52. The research approach of Max Weber to
understand how people create meanings in natural settings is identified as

(A) Positive
paradigm

(B) Critical
paradigm

(C) Natural
paradigm

(D) Interpretative
paradigm

Answer: (D)

53. Which
one of the following is a non probability sampling?

(A) Simple
Random

(B) Purposive

(C) Systematic

(D) Stratified

Answer: (B)

54. Identify
the category of evaluation that assesses the learning progress to provide
continuous feedback to the students during instruction.

(A) Placement

(B) Diagnostic

(C) Formative

(D) Summative

Answer: (C)

55. The
research stream of immediate application is

(A) Conceptual
research

(B) Action
research

(C) Fundamental
research

(D) Empirical
research

Answer: (B)

Instructions: Read the following passage carefully
and answer questions 56 to 60:

Traditional Indian Values must be viewed both from
the angle of the individual and from that of the geographically delimited
agglomeration of peoples or groups enjoying a common system of leadership which
we call the 'State'. The Indian 'State's' special feature is the peaceful, or
perhaps mostly peaceful, co-existence of social groups of various historical
provenances which manually adhere in a geographical, economic and political
sense, without ever assimilating to each other in social terms, in ways of
thinking, or even in language. Modern Indian law will determine certain rules,
especially in relation to the regime of the family, upon the basis of hwo the
loin-cloth is tied, or how the turban is worn, for this may identify the litigants
as members of a regional group, and therefore as participants in it traditional
law, though their ancestors left the region three or four centuries earlier.
The use of the word 'State' above must not mislead us. There was no such thing
as a conflict between the individual and the State, at least before foreign governments
became established, just as there was no concept of state 'sovereignty' or of
any church-and-state dichotomy.

Modem Indian 'secularism' has
an admittedly peculiar feature: It requires the state to make a fair distribution
of attention amongst all religions. These blessed aspects of India's famed
tolerance (Indian kings to rarely persecuted religious groups that the
exceptions prove the rule) at once struck Portuguese and other European
visitors to the West Coast of India in the sixteenth century, and the
impression made upon them in this and other ways gave rise, at one remove, to
the basic constitution of Thomas More's Utopia. There is little about modern India
that strikes one at once as Utopian but the insistence upon the inculcation of
norms, and the absense of bigotry and institutionalized exploitation of human
or natural resources, are two very different features which link the realities
of India and her tradition with the essence of all Utopians.

56. Which
of the following is a special feature of the Indian state?

(A) Peaceful
co-existence of people under a common system of leadership

(B) Peaceful
co-existence of social groups of different historical provenances attached to
each other in a geographical, economical and political sense

(C) Social
integration of all groups

(D) Cultural
assimilation of all social groups

Answer: (B)

57. The
author uses the word 'State' to highlight

(A) Antagonistic
relationship between the state and the individual throughout the period of
history.

(B) Absence
of conflict between the state and the individuals upto a point in time.